r/Pottery • u/Single-Fee-1708 • 8d ago
Question! Trimming question
This has recently started to happen to me while trimming, and at first I thought the problem was that I was not pushing hard enough or the wheel was too slow (which usually fixes this problem for me), but my usual fixes did not work. I managed to get it pretty even eventually by slowing the wheel down, but how can I avoid this from happening at all?
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u/MudMover2000 8d ago
I find a lot of folks "ride" the pot when they trim and exacerbate the bumps. Holding the tool steady and floating over some of the pot (so that you only trim off the crests of the bumps) is how I attack this issue